‘Miss AI’ is billed as a leap forward – but feels like a monumental step backwards
by The Guardian
The Guardian— AI models take every toxic gendered beauty norm and bundle them up into completely unrealistic package Meet Madame Potato. She doesn’t actually exist, but, if things go my way, she’s going to be the world’s first “Miss AI”. I recently created her image on a website that generates AI faces and then entered her into a beauty pageant. Now I am sitting back in anticipation of netting the $20,000 grand prize.What fresh hell is this, you ask? Well, I regret to inform you that AI beauty pageants are a...
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The Center Square—Hanford Site cleanup takes steps forward and backward under new agreement. (The Center Square) – Several state and federal agencies have reached an agreement modifying their approach to cleaning up the radioactive and chemical waste buried beneath Washington's Hanford Site, a decommissioned nuclear production complex. The Tri-Party Agreement reached Monday between the U.S. Department of Energy, Washington State Department of Ecology and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency followed years of negotiations that began in 2020, according to the...
www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com—One step forward, two steps back with electronic bus timetable. Situated at numerous bus stops around the city, the new screens carry much more information than the old ones they have replaced. They give the departures time, operating company’s name, destination and calling points of every upcoming service. So far, so good and a much modernised improvement on the old grey screen that told you the numbers of minutes until the next arrival. This was better as it tracked the bus’s progress in real time. The new improved technology doesn’t do this. You get to...